my original question: I do not want email verification at checkout. I want it to be disabled. My plan was to use only the email verification during the sign up. I see that, if the customer register using the register form https://www.mysite.com/my-account/ the email verification works, but if the customer check the "create an account" and register while doing the checkout, no email verification is done. To sum up: people going to checkout should not see email verification pop up. BUt, if the person is checking out as guest and creating an account, I want the email verification to take place since this user is "registering" himself. Got it? --- your reply: You want email verification to be required only when a customer registers, but not during checkout unless they create an account at the same time. At the moment, we do not have an option to trigger email verification only when an account is created during checkout while keeping it disabled for guest users. If you'd like, you can submit a feature request here: Feature Request Board, and we'll notify you if this functionality is added in the future.